While hundreds of applicants hoped to be selected to participate in the Sirenland Writers Conference, only a handful of them were chosen to attend the week-long event in Positano, Italy. James Winter, an English lecturer on the ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ State Salem Campus, was one of 10 applicants selected for the fiction writing workshop last spring. To apply for the conference, Winter had to submit qualifying fiction writing. The conference limited its selection to 10 writers for each of three workshops in mixed-genre, fiction and memoir writing. “In submitting work to my peers, I was doing ex...
School administrators from Shaker Heights, Painesville, Akron’s Firestone cluster and Westlake delved into understanding leadership through a contextual and cultural lens in a recent four-day Creating Global Mindedness Leadership Institute sponsored by ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´â€™s College of Education, Health and Human Services. The institute was held at ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ State’s Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg. This international training if offered on every continent of the world, and only 35 facilitators worldwide are authorized to be the presenters. Facilitators for this institute were Andrea...